Following low voter participation in last week’s undergraduate student government election, some students are criticizing the efforts of the candidates, councilmembers and the Election Board in promoting the race. With voter turnout at just 13.6 percent in the Undergraduate Students Association Council special election, the Green Initiative Fund referendum and the Bruin Diversity Referendum automatically […]
Category Archives: Student Government
ASUCLA Finance Committee recap – Oct. 24
Members of the Associated Students UCLA Finance Committee and the Communications Board discussed the association’s finances and possible models for UCLA Student Media at their monthly meeting Friday. The Communications Board is an independent subdivision of ASUCLA that oversees Student Media, including the Daily Bruin, BruinLife yearbook, UCLA Radio and seven newsmagazines. ASUCLA executive director […]
GSA recap – Oct. 22
The Graduate Students Association is the voice of graduate students on campus. The association meets for forum every three weeks and takes positions on current issues affecting graduate students. Forum meetings are at 5:30 p.m. in the Ackerman Viewpoint Lounge. Agenda Student representatives from various graduate and professional schools talked with members of a search […]
Bruin Diversity Referendum fails due to insufficient voter turnout
A referendum to increase quarterly student fees by about $10 to fund diversity-related programs did not pass Friday because voter turnout fell short of the 20 percent threshold in the undergraduate student government special election. Just 13.6 percent of eligible undergraduate students voted in the Undergraduate Students Association Council special election this week. Though the […]
Sadeghi-Movahed, Haq elected to transfer, general representative seats
This post was updated on Oct. 26 at 5:20 p.m. Students elected Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed to the newly created transfer student representative seat and Sofia Moreno Haq to the general representative 2 seat on the undergraduate student government council Friday. The Undergraduate Students Association Council special election saw a 13.6 percent voter turnout, a small number […]
USAC election candidates sanctioned for submitting late expense reports
The undergraduate student government Election Board barred two candidates from fliering on campus for all of Thursday after they did not report their campaign spending totals on time. Though they spent about $1,700 campaigning in total, transfer student representative candidate Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed and general representative 2 candidate Sofia Moreno Haq reported that they did not […]
Special election campaign funding significantly lower than previous races
Candidates and referendum representatives spent about $9,700 campaigning in this week’s undergraduate student government election, less than half of what has typically been committed to recent races in the spring.